Tuesday, May 1, 2007

Your inspiration

Dear Bono:

I wonder how you write the beautiful songs you write and how you choose the words that inspire me so. It is amazing to me that your songs seem to reach right into my heart and capture an emotion that is both elusive and fleeting. And all this from someone who (believes he) can't sing (but he's got soul.)

There are certain lines that I like to pluck from your songs when the mood strikes me:

"You've got to cry without weeping, talk without speaking, scream without raising your voice" (disparity)

"What you've got they cannot steal it, no they can't even feel it" (anger)

"Whose to say where the wind will take you, whose to say what it is will break you" (hope)

"In a little while, surely you'll be mine" (love)

Were you in these moods when you created these songs, or are they divinely inspired?

Take care,

Your biggest fan

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